DAIRYING IN VICTORIA.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 28, 21 July 1911, Page 4

DAIRYING IN VICTORIA.

HOME SEPARATION V. CREAMERY SYSTEM. In the course of a letter dated Melbourne, June’ 10th, addressed to Mr Ranby, of Ohaupo, the writer of it, who was travelling through Australia on business, incidentally refers to a revulsion which is taking place against home separation and of a return to the creamery system. The letter contains much interesting information from which we extract. The writer says : “I was in North Gippsland, Dandenong, Warrigal, Taragon, Hey field and Sale. It is a great maize country up there, but they cannot sell it this year. Pigs are being fed with it but stores are scarce. A good deal of beet sugar growing is done around here too. They have a Government beet sugar factory at Maffra. It pays well. Farmers can easily clear £6 to £lO per acre, but I am afraid the sugar combine will settle them as they did before. It requires a good deal of attention in cultivation which farmers won’t care about: They would sooner dairy. They grow nearly everything up -there — Kaffir corn, planter’s friend, maize, lucerne, sorghum,.—but the birds play the devil with the seed. It is nearly all home separation there. I visited dozens of farmers with their bark separator rooms, but in the majority of cases it is ail second grade cream. Only those close to the factory get first grade, and a very few careful farmers back. At Heyfield. a lot of whole milk comes in now and a new company was formed—left the Central Company and built a whole milk factory, would not accept separator cream and it is paying better than others—not price per pound of fat, but they get more pounds of fat with up-to-date separators worked by competent men. The opinion here seems cart all your own milk if you can. lam sure the cheese is coming and the creameries.”